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And as if researches in other nations like China will sit on their hands and do nothing. They are busy catching up but without any ethics boards.

Since we have intelligent vs stupid, I assume industrious is given as the opposite of lazy. So industrious really means hard working. And hard working can be dangerous. Very, very …

We are a very social species, the culture we create is our natural environment.

Think of all the job titles that didn't exist 30 years ago (social media marketer, seo specialist, etc I like that you picked those two because they happen to be two that are alrea…

Automation rarely replaces 100% of human workers. What tends to happen is that it replaces 99% of humans, does work that's almost identical to human work, and the 1% of humans left…

The problem with ads is that they suffer from the tragedy of commons. Each individual advertiser wants to be more prominent. All together virtually force you to block ads. In speci…

I think it's because we are pedantic. In a pedantic way no more world hunger, but people still die in car crashes, is correct. Pedantically correct.

On the other hand John Carmack isn't exactly known for his inefficient code, and yet he's still pushing the limits of hardware.

Any chance Boston Dynamics will adopt a don't be evil policy? They are owned by Google now. But let's not pretend Google's don't be evil policy makes a big difference these days.

A TEDx talk he gave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRRWaEPRlb4

The web is your 3rd mobile OS. Sure the developing world still needs very cheap phones, and they require software close to the hardware. But in the developed world phones and table…

Didn't Google announce that they won't be taking any more DARPA contracts in the future? Yes, but they will also finish the current contracts.

Or maybe it was Magic Leap, which they invested in, and will probably be the next "Google Glass".

Couldn't it be because her skills are obviously being underutilized? Society could benefit from her a lot more, and she could get more resources at the same time, but for what ever…

I am really fascinated that this has only happened in the last 18 months? Why? It seems to have always been true?

People need to feel that what they create can't be stolen. It's quite a leap from Archimedes getting murdered to fear your ideas might be copied. Ideas can't be stolen. And if you …

One thing that always bothers me about wealth distribution is that you can't simply move wealth around and expect things to get better. Things have gotten better in countries which…

It is probably related to the lactic acid buildup during exercise.

More legally regulated is the only real difference.

I am not sure how that could be prevented without reducing inequality. And I don't see how to raise the income of lower educated people in a world which is ever more automated.

Couldn't it just be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus As I get older, I hear some sounds I am certain are like tinnitus. It terrifies me because I love and need quiet. But so …

My order of likelihood is #1. This is a canary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

* Immunoglobulins (aka antibodies) are important for preventing infection and thus long term health but they would be difficult to impossible to produce synthetically.* Even with h…

Can't we use hybridoma to make immunoglobulin?

All cancers use similar mechanisms because of concept known as convergent evolution. You have no idea what those words mean.